Improvement in fastenings for bedsteads



A. F. STUWE.

Fastenings for Bedstead s. I No.153,465. PatqntedJuly28J874. v

I By 26 r J UNITED STATES PATENT O FIeE.

ANDREW F. STOWE, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR BE DSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,465, dated July 28, 1 74; application filed May 28, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW F. STOWE, of Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Fastenings,

&c.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to a fastening for bedsteads, tables, 850.; and consists in two screwsockets, one set into the bed-rail. and the other set into the bedpost, the two united by a loose spindle having a central fiat portion or annular recess, into which set-screws enter from each of the socket-heads, substantially as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a sectional view of my invention as applied to bedfastenings; Fig.2, an enlarged detached view of the socket and spindle.

.A is a socket, formed with a hollow that terminates on the inside at a point about op posite to the point where a screw-thread, B, starts upon the outside. B is a screw-thread formed to enter wood, and O is an angularshaped head to facilitate screwing the socket into the wood. D is a set-screw, formed either with or without a thumb-piece. E is a loose central spindle, provided with a recess or flat portion, 6; and the spindle is secured to the wherever a separate device to which the spinv die is attached is to be secured to another to which the socket A is attached; and, instead of employing both sockets, the spindle may be secured to one of the objects in any suitable manner, and this object secured to the other by the use of a single socket and set-screw attached to the latter.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 The combination of socket A, provided with a solid screw-cut end, B, set-screw D, and spindle E e, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

Witnesses: ANDREW F. STOWE.

RoBT. M. BARR, W. T. NEWMAN. 

